A Kirchhaus Schnapps haus
A Schulhaus outhouse
On highway 2/2b
The people keep the city clean

They call it Küssnacht Oh Küssnacht They call it 6403 Küssnacht (Küssnacht Stadt)

Twenty-five was the speed limit
Motorcycle not allowed in it
You go to the store on fridays
You go to church on sunday

They call it Küssnacht Little ole town
Oh Küssnacht Call it
(6403 Küssnacht)

You go to the fields on weekdays
And have a picnic on 1 August
You go to town on Saturday
But go to the church ev'ry Sunday

They call it Küssnacht Oh Küssnacht Call it 6403 Küssnacht All right hey, hey ya
All yeh yeah
Ha ha ha hey
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy yaaaayya
No handbags for sale
You can't cop no bail
Birchermeusli and haferflocken
Is all you get in jail
Little old town in Schweiz
That's called (6403 Küssnacht)
A quiet little old community
A one-horse town
You have to watch

I love the music she made in the US- not too down with the ring-ding Swiss stuff. I dance like her- especially to Nutbush! I was at her first comeback tour- when we had to all bunch together to make it seems like the there was a full crowd for a promo video. I love American Soul music- I' a big Tamla and Northern Soul fan. Just seems to me that she sold out. There is so much that she could do for charities here in the US, instead she's doing Swiss ads, trying to sell herself as Echte Schweiz at heart? Does she really need the money- or Swiss acceptance?

I love the music she made in the US- not too down with the ring-ding Swiss stuff. I dance like her- especially to Nutbush! I was at her first comeback tour- when we had to all bunch together to make it seems like the there was a full crowd for a promo video. I love American Soul music- I' a big Tamla and Northern Soul fan. Just seems to me that she sold out. There is so much that she could do for charities here in the US, instead she's doing Swiss ads, trying to sell herself as Echte Schweiz at heart? Does she really need the money- or Swiss acceptance?

Maybe, I dunno, likes Switzerland.

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I love the music she made in the US- not too down with the ring-ding Swiss stuff. I dance like her- especially to Nutbush! I was at her first comeback tour- when we had to all bunch together to make it seems like the there was a full crowd for a promo video. I love American Soul music- I' a big Tamla and Northern Soul fan. Just seems to me that she sold out. There is so much that she could do for charities here in the US, instead she's doing Swiss ads, trying to sell herself as Echte Schweiz at heart? Does she really need the money- or Swiss acceptance?

I guess like many Americans she resents completing complex forms to pay US taxes on money earned outside America?

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I love the music she made in the US- not too down with the ring-ding Swiss stuff. I dance like her- especially to Nutbush! I was at her first comeback tour- when we had to all bunch together to make it seems like the there was a full crowd for a promo video. I love American Soul music- I' a big Tamla and Northern Soul fan. Just seems to me that she sold out. There is so much that she could do for charities here in the US, instead she's doing Swiss ads, trying to sell herself as Echte Schweiz at heart? Does she really need the money- or Swiss acceptance?

Why should she? Do you expect other Americans abroad (rich or otherwise) to be contributing to US charities? Her life is now in Switzerand, not the US, so why shouldn't she do ads here?

How can she have sold out? She's been working and paying US taxes since 1958, so some 55 years, before she finally renounced. And she would have paid a considerable sum in the Exit Tax too I expect. If the US government prefers to put that money into an ever increasing military budget instead of improving the lives of its citizens, is that her fault?

The sooner the US ditches citizen based taxation the better.

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Honestly, Hoppy I don't think she's obligated to the US in any way. Good for her ... She's worked hard, found success and she's been in a stable relationship for years. I like living here too and I will probably ditch my US citizenship as soon as I can.

The commercial is pretty silly, but so what. I think it must be aimed at expats/the newly Swissed though because it's in English. Are there German versions about?

Unless we forget that not all Americans abroad are doing well, you might wish to see this analysis of Americans in Brussels, which appeared on a Canadian website last week:

"380 (12.3%) of the 3,083 Americans registered live in five of the poorest areas of Brussels: Molenbeek, Anderlecht, St Gilles, St Josse and Schaerbeek.

As a proxy for poverty, I used the municipalities with the highest unemployment rates, as reported in April 2013:
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 29,6%
Molenbeek 28,1%
Saint-Gilles 24,2%
Schaerbeek 24,2%
Anderlecht 23,8%

A Wiki page on Molenbeek gives some insight into this rather miserable Brussels municipality:
“Attempts at revitalizing the municipality (Molenbeek) have, however, not been successful. The multinational company BBDO in June, 2011 citing over 150 attacks on their staff by locals, posted an open letter to the mayor, Philippe Moureaux announcing their withdrawal from the town.”

The point of this exercise is to suggest that some Americans abroad live in poverty. Using the term “expats”, as Mark Mazur (Asst Treasury Secretary) did in his letter to The Economist, does not fit the reality of the existence of some Americans abroad."

Unless we forget that not all Americans abroad are doing well, you might wish to see this analysis of Americans in Brussels, which appeared on a Canadian website last week:

"380 (12.3%) of the 3,083 Americans registered live in five of the poorest areas of Brussels: Molenbeek, Anderlecht, St Gilles, St Josse and Schaerbeek.

As a proxy for poverty, I used the municipalities with the highest unemployment rates, as reported in April 2013:
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 29,6%
Molenbeek 28,1%
Saint-Gilles 24,2%
Schaerbeek 24,2%
Anderlecht 23,8%

A Wiki page on Molenbeek gives some insight into this rather miserable Brussels municipality:
“Attempts at revitalizing the municipality (Molenbeek) have, however, not been successful. The multinational company BBDO in June, 2011 citing over 150 attacks on their staff by locals, posted an open letter to the mayor, Philippe Moureaux announcing their withdrawal from the town.”

The point of this exercise is to suggest that some Americans abroad live in poverty. Using the term “expats”, as Mark Mazur (Asst Treasury Secretary) did in his letter to The Economist, does not fit the reality of the existence of some Americans abroad."

Maybe not everybody wants to live in the Wolleraus of this world.

Some of these so-called imporished communities are actually good places to live. Rents are low and if you can get on with the community, you can have a good time there, especially if you like international food and culture. Not everybody who lives in a poor community is themselves poor. In fact there is a lot of gentrification going on in Brussels precisely because of better off people discovering the positive sides of some of the poorer neighbourhoods.

Some of these so-called imporished communities are actually good places to live. Rents are low and if you can get on with the community, you can have a good time there, especially if you like international food and culture. Not everybody who lives in a poor community is themselves poor. In fact there is a lot of gentrification going on in Brussels precisely because of better off people discovering the positive sides of some of the poorer neighbourhoods.

But who is to say because you live in Wollerau you aren't living in poverty? I know 7 men that live there, that basically making enough to scratch by. Just because one person, lives one place, does not define their financial situation.

Obviously citizenship is more than taxation, there are strong emotional ties to it. As things stand now for me, I would never, ever consider giving up my Italian citizenship once I acquire my U.S. one, at some point in the future.

But consider this scenario: suppose I become a U.S. citizen, I live here in the U.S. for 30 years, I never live again in Italy, I have no more ties to the country - no family, no financial obligations, etc. I have no children who might benefit from getting an EU passport. Still, I hang on to the IT citizenship because "why not?" At some point, Italy decides to overhaul its tax system and turns it into the idiotic, U.S-style, worldwide income, nationality (not residency) based taxation. At that point, just for the fact that I am Italian my financial/compliance life has just become obscenely complicated. In that case, I would give it up.

It's just speculations, but if TT went through a similar thought process, I understand her 100%.

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